The Goods: Film Reviews
What a delight. Chaplin in fine form, with one sketch after another that plays to the setting well. (A high-wire monkey attack is, in particular, chaotic perfection.) There’s also a strong undercurrent of reflection on the life of performer and authenticity in entertainment, and an ending unusually bittersweet for early/mid-Chaplin.
“It’s fire, it’s freedom, it’s flooding open”
There should be more big budget original non-animated musicals
Reviewed on The Goods: A Film Podcast during Circus Month
Reviewed on The Goods here.
The footage is superior, but it is actively undermined by some of the most self-serving, anthropomorphizing narration I’ve ever heard. To quote one of my favorite Letterboxd reviews: “i did not care about this man or his problems or his face”
I love Lizzy Caplan.